EDIT: If anyone ever wants to make a 3d model of this ship for any reason, keep in mind that the sprite is not accurate at all from a perspective standpoint. To better make some feel parts cylindric i had to use some tricks that made the sprite appear as if it's seen both by axonometric and perspective points of view at the same time. I guess it could be considered as kind of a cubist sprite... so the point is, don't go crazy over it. If you were to build a model out of this current sprite, the ship would be bent as fuck.Thus, if you need to, feel free to contact me. I'll answer to any questions you might have regarding what i had in mind.

CHANGELOG FOR 3.0!

• Moke-- It now starts with a clonebay rather than no medbay.-- It now starts without a healing bomb and no missiles.-- The heavy laser has been replaced with a chain laser.-- It can now house all systems but artillery.

• Firestarter-- The artillery now works with AE.-- Weapon slots are now 2 rather than 3.-- It now starts with two heavy lasers rather than two basic lasers.-- The artillery laser now fires five volleys rather than four.-- The artillery laser's color is now orange rather than green.-- It can now house all systems.

The Moke starts without a medbay, so i gave it a Heal Burst bomb to compensate for that. If you buy it from a store, though, it will be able to heal up to four crew members at once!

The Firestarter was meant to have only two available weapon slots but, partly because of UI issues and partly because the ship *might* be a little bit underpowered, i chose to add a third slot at the last moment. The artillery laser too was meant to fire five shots, but i nerfed it because i haven’t had the chance to playtest it very much and i was afraid it’d be overpowered.

I've drawn the ship's exterior from scratch using original ships as references. To make the gibs and interiors I used parts of existing images from the game files.

I really appreciate feedback and criticism, so feel free to give me your opinions! If you have any advice for me i’ll be sure to take it into consideration. : )

- You need Slipstream Mod Manager to install either of the mod packs.- You can use a Savegame Editor to edit your savegame and unlock the needed ships. (But use it parsimoniously!) (Also backup your savegames!)

Special Thanks to:- DryEagle for the support he gave me in the IRC channel. - VanguardOfValor for both his ship-making introductory video and making a let's play with my ship.- Bren Tenkage for his run with the Firestarter.

Also thanks to the forum's community for the awesome tutorials and all the feedback given. : )

I gotta say: That is one sexy ship you made there! Probably one of the sweetest non-spliced hulls I've seen here so far. The design matches FTLs style perfectly, but you also put in a great unique touch. I especially like what you did with the gibs, the panels that fly off and stuff, that's a great idea. Layout and floor plan also seem well thought out.

Oh hey! I wanted to make a remark about my nickname: It's not a ripoff of yours! I've been using it since 2007 because of reasons. It's weird in a good way to see somebody with "service" in their nick too!

Anyway thank you very much! I take the chance to compliment you on the Captain's Edition as well! I considered using some weapons from that pack but i'm not really familiar with what they all do, and I haven't looked into weapon exportation yet (if that's even a thing). If any of you can think of a good combination of weapons/systems for this ship that'd be great!

R4V3-0N wrote:due to the shields shape, the impact will not be where the shield look like it covers and also may even provide no protection for some rooms if they stick out of the real shield ellipsis.

Oh crap, I didn't know that. I wondered why everyone used elliptic shields..! I'll see about fixing that up. : ) Thanks for the feedback.

EDIT: PS: I suck at making names and stories up, as you might have realized

Thanks! I actually am a kinda seasoned Halo 1 modder. That doesn't have much to do with FTL, but i've always been prone to modding in general, i guess. Also i have some experience with graphic tools, and drawing stuff with pixels is something i find particularly fun!

Danke! I'm considering doing a B layout that would include an artillery weapon of some sort. I'm currently trying to figure out how to make that work, though. Is it possible for my ship to have a different artillery weapon than the fed cruiser without modifying the fed cruiser's artillery beam? Is there any documentation about this that anyone could recommend to me? : )

Also i've updated the .ftl again, it now includes metadata for SSM. (thanks to DryEagle for helping me realize what i was doing wrong in packing the .ftl) (i was trying to compress the img, data and mod-appendix folders within another folder :V )